[Hiring] Senior IT Manager @Solen Software Group

Role Description

Solen is hiring a Senior IT Manager to help mature the IT function across the holding company and more than twenty operating companies. This person will inherit a partially built environment with standards and implementations already underway, uneven documentation, and a mix of internal and external support. The mandate is to make that environment reliable, repeatable, secure, well documented, and capable of scaling with the portfolio.

This is a hands-on builder role. During the first year, the Senior IT Manager will personally:

• Diagnose problems
• Complete implementations
• Support users
• Document recurring work
• Learn the true shape of demand

The role may eventually lead a team, but it is not being hired to inherit a mature organization and manage from a distance.

The Senior IT Manager will recommend improvements, influence operating companies, and execute agreed direction. Jason retains final authority over consequential cross-company standards and major IT decisions, while expecting this leader to challenge assumptions, surface risks, and bring better ideas forward.

What Success Looks Like in Year One

• Build a repeatable IT operating foundation.
• Complete and operationalize core identity and access management, device management, remote monitoring, onboarding and offboarding, code repository, cybersecurity, and governance standards.
• Turn knowledge into organizational capability.
• Establish practical security and governance.
• Define the long-term operating model.
• Make IT a trusted business function.

Key Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day IT execution across Solen HQ and the operating companies, including complex identity, access, device, network, application, and endpoint issues.
• Complete and operate standards for Entra ID, Microsoft 365, Intune or similar MDM platforms, endpoint security, remote monitoring and management, patching, device compliance, and SaaS administration.
• Design and run end-to-end employee onboarding and offboarding, including hardware procurement and recovery, account provisioning and revocation, licensing, data transfer, and evidence capture.
• Maintain practical identity and access controls including conditional access, phishing-resistant MFA, SSO, passkeys or self-service password reset, and least-privilege administration.
• Implement Data Loss Prevention and other information-protection controls appropriate to each business's risk and obligations.
• Establish repeatable vulnerability scanning and penetration-testing processes, including completing applicable testing before public announcements or press releases and tracking remediation to closure.
• Create and maintain incident response plans, security operating procedures, compliance reviews, and recurring risk assessments.
• Execute the IT workstream of the 100-Day Integration Plan for acquisitions and improve the playbook as Solen learns from each integration.
• Standardize tools and practices across operating companies where the value outweighs migration cost and disruption, while documenting justified exceptions.
• Centralize visibility into AWS, Azure, and other hosting spend; identify waste, duplicate services, commitment opportunities, architecture tradeoffs, and practical optimization actions with Finance and technical leaders.
• Evaluate vendors, managed services, contractors, and internal staffing based on capability, service quality, risk, total cost, and recurring demand rather than headcount alone.
• Document systems, configurations, decisions, runbooks, and SOPs in a shared repository and test whether others can execute them.
• Provide useful service and risk metrics to leadership, identify recurring patterns, and improve processes in the sequence reliable, repeatable, optimized, and then automated.

What You Bring

• Broad, hands-on IT capability across identity, endpoints, SaaS administration, networking fundamentals, cybersecurity, device lifecycle, monitoring, troubleshooting, and basic scripting or automation.
• A structured approach to ambiguous environments: assess the current state, separate urgent risk from noise, prioritize, execute, and adjust based on evidence.
• Practical business and security judgment.
• A builder's mindset.
• Commercial judgment and a natural focus on cheaper, better, and faster.
• The confidence to recommend a different approach, challenge assumptions constructively, and operate with appropriate independence.
• Clear communication with technical and nontechnical stakeholders and the ability to influence operating companies without relying on positional authority.

Experience

• Five or more years of progressive responsibility across IT infrastructure, systems, security, and end-user technology in SaaS, software, or another distributed environment.
• Demonstrated experience building or materially improving IT operations in an environment with ambiguity, incomplete documentation, or rapid growth.
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Windows administration, and modern endpoint management; working knowledge of macOS and Google Workspace is useful.
• Experience with identity and access management, MDM, endpoint protection, RMM, networking fundamentals, incident response, vulnerability management, and compliance frameworks such as SOC 2 or ISO 27001.
• Experience supporting acquisitions, multiple business entities, or distributed teams is preferred.
• Experience evaluating managed services, vendors, cloud or hosting costs, and build-versus-buy decisions is preferred.
• Leadership or team-building experience is useful, but current hands-on capability and sound judgment matter more than having managed a large team.

Why This Role

This role offers the opportunity to shape how IT operates across a growing software group. The right person will have meaningful autonomy, direct access to leadership, and the chance to build durable systems while helping determine the team and operating model Solen will need for its next stage.

Solen-isms (How We Operate)

• Ownership Mindset: We own the mission. We don't wait to be told. We lead, fix, and build as if it were ours.
• Benchmark to Best: We seek out excellence. We measure ourselves against the best and adapt quickly.
• Openly Self-Critical: Leaders go first; they surface their misses early and ask for direct feedback.
• Disagree & Commit: Leaders disagree openly and constructively, because truth is how we avoid bureaucracy.
• Figureitoutiveness: Embracing challenges, fostering growth, and taking initiative.
• Mutual Elevation: Committed to growth, elevating teams, and developing future leaders.
• Learn-it-alls: Embracing failure as part of growth and progress.
• Pioneering: Driven by opportunity, using first principles thinking.
• Will to Win: Leaders relentlessly pursue potential and reject mediocrity.
• Dialectical: We learn through conversation, valuing disagreement as a tool for alignment.
• Frugality: Achieving more with less, focusing on quality and long-term value.
• Candor: We communicate with integrity, transparency, and respect.
• Kaizen: Continuous improvement as a way of life.

Recruitment Disclaimer

Solen Software Group will never request payment, banking information, or other sensitive personal or financial details during any stage of the recruitment process. All official communication will come from a verified @solensoftwaregroup.com email address. Any outreach outside these standards should be disregarded and reported through our official channels.

We thank all applicants for their interest in joining Solen Software Group. Only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.